William Perkins — A Golden Chain, or The Description of Theology (1590s English ed.), Chapter 1, Of the Body of Scripture and Theology

The body of Scripture is a doctrine sufficient to live well. It comprehends many holy sciences, of which one is principal, and the others are handmaids or attendants.

It was necessary that Christ should be God. There must be a proportion between the sin of man and the punishment of sin. Now the sin of man in respect to the offence of the majesty of God is infinite, in that he is infin…

Certainly every cause is an antecedent, but not all antecedents are causes... Surely all effects are consequent, but not all consequents are effects.

Thirdly, there is the antiquity of the Word. It contains a record of human history since the beginning of the world. By contrast the oldest secular histories were not written before the time of Ezra and Nehemiah, who liv…

Christian, show yourself to be a member of Christ and a servant of God, not only in the general calling of a Christian, but also in the particular calling in which you are placed. It is not enough for a magistrate to be…

We must, in ourselves, be like the wounded man that lay in the road, that Christ Jesus the true Samaritan may come by us to dress our wounds, and to power his own precious blood into our souls.